'Coma man's' baby is a stripper

Sunday 13 July 2003 23:00 BST

A man who has woken from a coma after 19 years has yet to be told that his wife has since had three children by another man and that his daughter Amber, who he last saw as a sixmonthold baby, is a stripper.

Terry Wallis, now 39, from Arkansas, suddenly started speaking last week after lying in a coma since a car crash in 1984. But the story masks a bitter family row.

After the accident his parents claimed guardianship of Mr Wallis and told his wife Sandi, then 17, to "move on". She now has three other teenage children who live with their father. Sandi, 36, says she will go to court to get custody of her husband.